蜉

蜉 U+8709, 蜉 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8709 ← 蜈 [U+8708] CJK Unified Ideographs 蜊 → [U+870A]

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Translingual

Han character

蜉 (radical 142, 虫+7, 13 strokes, cangjie input 中戈月弓木 (LIBND), four-corner 5214₇, composition ⿰虫孚)

References

• KangXi: page 1084, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 33104
• Dae Jaweon: page 1552, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2857, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8709

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		蜉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (孚) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
殍	*brɯwʔ, *browʔ, *pʰuw
脬	*pʰruː
捊	*bruː, *buw
莩	*browʔ, *pʰuw
哹	*pu, *bu
浮	*bu
蜉	*bu
桴	*bu, *pʰuw
罦	*bu, *pʰuw
琈	*bu
粰	*bu
烰	*bu
艀	*bu
俘	*pʰuw
孚	*pʰuw
孵	*pʰuw
稃	*pʰuw
郛	*pʰuw
筟	*pʰuw

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fú (fu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fau⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): hû

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: fú
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ
    • Wade–Giles: fu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwu
    • IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: fau⁴
    • Yale: fàuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fau⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: feo⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /fɐu̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hû
    • Tâi-lô: hû
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huu
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /hu²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hu¹³/

Definitions

蜉

1. Only used in 蜉蝣 (fúyóu) and 蚍蜉 (pífú).
2. ^‡ big ant

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Japanese

Kanji

蜉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. mayfly
2. large ant

Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu)
• Kan-on: ふう (fū)
• Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu)

Compounds

Compounds

• 蜉蝣 (かげろう) (kagerō), 蜉 (ふ)蝣 (ゆう) (fuyū): mayfly
• 蚍 (ひ)蜉 (ふ) (hifu): large ant

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Korean

Hanja

蜉 • (bu) (hangeul 부, revised bu, McCune–Reischauer pu, Yale pu)

1. mayfly
2. kind of large insect